Sight and Sound

Labyrinth of passion : François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend merges a Chabrol-style thriller with romance, melodrama, farce and even musical. By Jonathan Romney = 30 REGULARS Editorial : True crit = 5 Rushes Isabel Stevens previews Cannes 205 = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill asks if anyone is for tennis = 8 The Five Key…: films about flight = 9 Interview: Ashley Clark meets Debbie Trucker Green, director of Second Coming = 11 Dispatches: Mark Cousins on the language of cinematography = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant meets the writer of British romcom Man Up = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on Wild Tales = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts asks where the good new British horror films are = 17 Exhibition: Jasper Sharp on how Dolby Atmos is shaking up cinema sound = 19 Wide Angle Laura Mulvey reflects on her essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema 40 years after publication = 50 Soundings: Ashley Clark on the work of Trevor Mathison, from the Black Audio Film Collective = 52 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson reports from the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema in Bo’ness = 53 Nick Roddick revisits the work of filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait = 54 Sukhdev Sandhu unpicks the hallucinatory visions of Field Niggas = 55 Letter = 111 Endings : Craig Williams unravels the ambiguities in Once upon a Time in America = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE : Minority report : After decades of marginalizing non-white segments of the French population, local films are finally engaging with them. By Ginette Vincendeau PLUS Girlhood director Céline Sciamma talks to Thirza Wake field = 21 Age of uncertainty : Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria stars Juliette Binoche as an actress tackling the insecurities of ageing and the rivalry of young starlets. The film’s director speaks to Neil McGlone = 34 The past is not myself : A concentration camp survivor returns to the ruins of postwar Berlin to track down her husband in the complex melodrama Phoenix. Neil Young meets the film’s director, Christian Petzold = 38 Code of silence : The Tribe is an unsentimental drama set at a deaf school in Ukraine – told entirely in sign language. By Jonathan Romney PLUS The film’s director, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, talks to Isabel Stevens = 42 THE S&S INTERVIEW: Abderrahmane Sissako : As his powerful new film Timbuktu is releases, the Mauritanian director tells Geoff Andrew why, on screen, a whisper can convey more than a scream = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH The Dorkels = 58 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night = 60 Listen Up Philip = 62 Second Coming = 64 FILMS The Beat Beneath My Feet = 66 Big Game = 66 The Canal = 67 Child 44 = 67 Clouds of Sils Maria = 68 The Connection = 69 Danny Collins = 70 The Dead Lands = 70 Fast & Furious 7 = 71 A Fuller Life = 72 Futuro Beach = 73 Get Hard = 73 Girlhood = 73 The Goob = 74 Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision = 75 Honeytrap = 76 Lambert & Stamp = 77 Lost River = 78 Man Up = 78 The Man Who Saved the World = 79 Moomins on the Riviera = 80 The New Girlfriend = 80 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 = 81 Phoenix = 82 Pitch Perfect 2 = 83 Rosewater = 83 A Royal Night Out = 84 Spooks: The Greater Good = 85 Spring = 85 Still = 86 The Supreme Price = 87 Timbuktu = 87 Tokyo Tribe = 88 Top Five = 89 The Treatment = 90 The Tribe = 91 We Are Monster = 92 Woman in Gold = 92 HOME CINEMA Abuse of Weakness, Blood and Black Lace, Films by Vera Chytilova, Day of Anger, Fellini – Satyricon, 52 Pick-Up, Midnight Run, Network, Paper Moon, Pictures of the Old World, The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, Sweet Smell of Success, Vice and Virtue = 95 DVD features Adrian Martin on Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs = 94 Michael Brooke on a new Carl Dreyer boxset = 97 Graham Fuller revisits Renoir’s A Day in the Country = 98 Television : Olive Kitteridge, The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs = 100 Lost & Found : Farran Smith Nehme on La Vérité sur Bébé Donge = 102 BOOKS Sonia Genaitay explores the ‘glorious’ The Dawn of Technicolor 1914-1935 = 104 Nick Pinkerton on P. Adamas Sitney’s The Cinema of Poetry = 105 Jane Giles enjoys Jason Wood’s Last Words = 106 Brad Stevens delves into a new study of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid = 106

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